Proverbs 31:30 · KJV
“Favour {is} deceitful, and beauty {is} vain: {but} a woman {that} feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.”
— Proverbs 31:30
Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all. {have...: or, have gotten riches}
Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.
Proverbs 31 — Context
Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband {also}, and he praiseth her.
29Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all. {have...: or, have gotten riches}
30Favour {is} deceitful, and beauty {is} vain: {but} a woman {that} feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.
31Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.
Cross References
Proverbs 1:7
The fear of the LORD {is} the beginning of knowledge: {but} fools despise wisdom and instruction. {the beginning: or, the principal part}
1 Peter 3:4-5
But {let it be} the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, {even the ornament} of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
Proverbs 11:22
{As} a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, {so is} a fair woman which is without discretion. {is without: Heb. departeth from}
Proverbs 8:13
The fear of the LORD {is} to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
1 Peter 1:24
For all flesh {is} as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: {For: or, For that}
1 Corinthians 4:5
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.
Esther 1:11-12
To bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to shew the people and the princes her beauty: for she {was} fair to look on. {fair...: Heb. good of countenance}
Psalms 147:11
The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.